Indiana University Athletics
IU Names New Head Football Coach
11/26/1996 12:00:00 AM | Football
Tom Lukawski won the Big Ten's Medal of Honor. That
award goes to the student-athlete who demonstrates proficiency in both scholarship and
athletic performance.
Balfour Award winner was Jamie Baisley (Football)
IU Names New Head Football Coach
November 26, 1996
Indiana University Athletic Director Clarence Doninger, with the approval of the University's Board of Trustees, announced the appointment of Cam Cameron as Indiana University's head football coach. Cameron is the school's 24th head football coach in the sport's 112 years. The 35-year old Cameron, who received a seven-year contract from the university, has spent the last three seasons as the Washington Redskins quarterbacks' coach. He will continue in that position until the conclusion of the NFL season. "As we went through this process, there were various profiles that we looked at. One of the profiles that intrigued us was a coach that had Indiana ties, a coach that has been involved in the college ranks, and a coach that has been involved in the pro ranks. I believe that we have found that person," Doninger said.
Cameron Selects Coaching Staff
New Indiana University football coach Cam Cameron has announced the assistant coaches who will join him at IU in his first head coaching venture.Included in the group are Pete Schmidt, head coach at Albion College the last 14 years who will serve as assistant head coach and quarterback coach; Jon Heacock, who will serve as defensive coordinator after holding the same position at Youngstown Srate the last five years; Mark Deal, who will be retained in the same role as centers and guard coach that he held at IU last year; and Anthony Thompson, former IU All-American and Big Ten Most Valuable Player as running backs coach.
Also joining the staff are Ron Burton as linebacker coach, Marty Fine as tackle and tight end coach, John Harbaugh as defensive backs and special teams coach, Mike Teeter as defensive line coach, T.J. Weist as wide receiver coach and recruiting coordinator, and Matt Bomba as strength coach.
"We are very fortunate that we have assembled a high quality coaching staff," Cameron said. "This is a young, energetic staff that also is an experienced staff. And it is a group of men who have been associated with winning programs, people who know what it takes to win and how to go about preparing to win. Personally, I couldn't be more pleased."
Schmidt, who also served as athletic director at Albion the past five years, had a 104-27-4 record in 14 seasons as head coach. His teams won 9 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championships and the 1994 NCAA Division III national championship. Last year his Albion team led Division III in scoring offense (50.8 points per game) and total offense (534 yards per game).
Heacock has 13 years of collegiate coaching experience, including two years as a graduate assistant coach at Michigan (1988-90). He has also coached at West Liberty State and Army and served as a graduate assistant at Toledo. He was defensive coordinator of Youngstown Stace teams that won Division 1-AA national championships in 1993 and 1994 and defensive backfield coach when Youngstown was national champion in 1991.
Deal remains on the Hoosier staff he joined last year. A former IU player and graduate assistant coach, he has coached at Wabash, Marshall, Kansas State, Virginia Military and Rutgers.
Thompson is IU's all-time leading rusher and owns the NCAA record in career touchdowns with 65. A two-cime All-American and Big Ten MVP, he later played in the NFL for the Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams. He has been in business in Terre Haute since his retirement from pro football.
Burton has been linebacker coach at Eastern Michigan the past two seasons. He also served as defensive back coach at Morehead Scate one year and was a graduate assistant for North Carolina for two seasons. He played in the NFL from 1987 to 1991 with the Dallas Cowboys, Phoenix Cardinals and Los Angeles Raiders.
Fine served as offensive line coach at Colgate last year after coaching the previous five years at Indiana State, the last four as offensive coordinator. He has also served as the head coach of the Naval Prep School and served as assistant coach at Westchester Community College, Western New Mexico State and Sonoma State in California.
Harbaugh has been ar the University of Cincinnati the past eight seasons, coaching first outside linebackers and then running backs and special teams. He also was named assistant head coach last year. He has also coached at Western Michigan, Pittsburgh and Morehead Scate. He comes from a football family--brother Jim is the quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts and father Jack has coached in the college ranks for 34 years, currently serving as head coach at Wesrern Kentucky.
Teeter played at Michigan from 1985-89 and played professionally until his very recent retirement from the NFL, where he was a member of the Indianapolis Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Houston Oilers, Carolina Panthers and Arizona Cardinals.
Weist comes to IU from Tulsa, where he coached receivers last year. He had a four-year association with Cameron at Michigan, coaching wide receivers while Cameron was quarterback coach. A former wide receiver at the University of Alabama, Weist also served as passing game and recruiting coordinator at Southern Illinois in 1994-95.
Bomba, who is from Bloomington, came to IU as a walk-on and was a defensive tackle for the Hoosiers from 1989-92, starting the final three games of his senior season. After playing professionally for a year, Bomba returned to IU and for the last two years has worked in the Assembly Hall weight room as an assistant.
